I hate it when I’m watching TV and something comes on that I don’t recognize. After my cartoons were over, a movie started playing. It was a Marvel Comics movie, so I watched the intro expecting my pop culture telepathy to kick in. After the Marvel logo, there was a desert – and then some army people and a helicopter – and then someone giving the helicopter the finger, and some sort of metal beast, and .. what the fuck is this, anyway. I called Ed over, and we kept watching. Okay, there are some explosions .. and a car .. and the North Vancouver train yard, complete with a Saskatchewan grain train that, at this exact moment, is about 3 minutes from my house .. what the hell?

Turns out it was the first few minutes of Blade: Trinity, which a) was apparently filmed down the street from me, and b) is a Marvel property. Then I turned the TV off. I don’t particularly care for either leather trench coats or the third movie in a series I’ve never seen, but it was neat to see my train yard.

not pictured: vampires; Wesley Snipes